Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 02:22:15 -0400 From: George Georgalis <george@galis.org> To: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se> Cc: warrior@mailbox.riga.lv, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term Message-ID: <20020417022215.E12351@trot.haven.dom> In-Reply-To: <20020416073141.GA65538@foo31-146.visit.se>; from martin.karlsson@visit.se on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:31:42AM %2B0200 References: <200204151827.g3FIRS325448@smtp.delfi.lv> <20020416073141.GA65538@foo31-146.visit.se>
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 09:31:42AM +0200, Martin Karlsson wrote: >* warrior@mailbox.riga.lv <warrior@mailbox.riga.lv> [2002-04-15 18.27 +0000]: >> If in a console I set setenv TERM xterm-color then load up X, this value isnt >> in there, why? I have to enter it again. is there anyway to save it somewhere? > >One workaround is to put (not sure about uppercase/lowercase; do a >google): >Xterm*termName: xterm-color >in your .Xdefaults. > >However, according to the xterm maintainer Thomas E. Dickey, this is >wrong; basically he's saying that FreeBSD uses a broken termcap, >which should be exchanged with the xterm-termcap (anyone know >something about this? Comments? Explanation?). > >More info at: >http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html I throw this (from my RH distro) in the end of BSD's termcap... # # This should work for the commonly used "color xterm" variations (XFree86 # xterm, color_xterm, nxterm, rxvt): xterm-color|generic "ANSI" color xterm (X Window System):\ :Co#8:NC@:pa#64:\ :AB=\E[4%dm:AF=\E[3%dm:op=\E[m:tc=xterm-r6: I have not experienced/experimented with console issues... just set TERM to xterm-color, prob are issues with console... humm, I normally use rxvt but never noticed this...(also from RH) # From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@clark.net> 04 Oct 1997 # Updated: Oezguer Kesim <kesim@math.fu-berlin.de> 02 Nov 1997 # Notes: # rxvt 2.21b uses # smacs=\E(B\E)U^N, rmacs=\E(B\E)0^O, # but some applications don't work with that. # It also has an AIX extension # box2=lqkxjmwuvtn, # and # ech=\E[%p1%dX, # but the latter does not work correctly. # # The distributed terminfo says it implements hpa and vpa, but they are not # implemented correctly, using relative rather than absolute positioning. # # rxvt is normally configured to look for "xterm" or "xterm-color" as $TERM. # Since rxvt is not really compatible with xterm, it should be configured as # "rxvt" (monochrome) and "rxvt-color". # (untranslatable capabilities removed to fit entry within 1023 bytes) # (sgr removed to fit entry within 1023 bytes) # (acsc removed to fit entry within 1023 bytes) # (terminfo-only capabilities suppressed to fit entry within 1023 bytes) rxvt-basic|rxvt terminal base (X Window System):\ :am:bs:eo:km:mi:ms:xn:xo:\ :co#80:it#8:li#24:\ :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ :K1=\EOw:K2=\EOu:K3=\EOy:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:\ :RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:ae=^O:al=\E[L:as=^N:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:\ :ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:\ :cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=^J:ei=\E[4l:\ :ho=\E[H:i1=\E[?47l\E=\E[?1l:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:\ :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l:\ :k1=\E[11~:k2=\E[12~:k3=\E[13~:k4=\E[14~:k5=\E[15~:\ :k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:\ :kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=\177:kd=\E[B:ke=\E>:\ :kh=\E[7~:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ks=\E=:ku=\E[A:le=^H:mb=\E[5m:\ :md=\E[1m:me=\E[0m\017:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:\ :se=\E[27m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:\ :te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:\ :us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l: rxvt|rxvt terminal emulator (X Window System):\ :NC@:\ :me=\E[m\017:tc=rxvt-basic:tc=ecma+color: I put the whole file up if anyone wants to compare http://galis.org/scripts/termcap // George >-- >Martin Karlsson -- 0x9C924660 >-------------------------------------------------------- >"You can't teach people to be lazy - > either they have it, or they don't." --Dagwood Bumstead > -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:george@galis.org File, Print, DB and DNS Servers. http://www.galis.org/george To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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